The National tribune., 1887-06-02
TIE PRESIDENT,
Should He Visit the National En-
campment?

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: for one enter
protest against Grover" of veto" fame be-
ing present at our annual Encampment. but if
the citizens of St. Louis are determined to force
him upon US, am in favor of changing to some
more loyal city, and let them (the citizens) en-
terrain their guest solely themselves. do not
propose to go there if he is to be there, and
believe | echo the sentiments of thousands of
our old comrades-in-arms. He has proved him.
self no friend of ours, and, therefore, we are
under no obligations to him.-H. w. MILLER,
Co. 4, 9Th Iowa, Missouri Valley, Iowa.
NOT HALF so MANY WILL GO.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The letter of
acceptance TO attend st. Louis by Grover Cleve-
land during the National Encampment is read
from Kansas City Star to-day, causing much
feeling, !. e., feelings of disgust and mOrtihca-
ton. Many comrades, who made all arrange
ments TO attend, will not go if Cleveland is
there. If other States view and talk over this
matter like the comrades here do, there would
not be over half attendance at the next En-
campment at st. Louis if Cleveland is there,
and his 10000 sympathIZing signers. / believe
the Department would be justified, under the
circumstances, to withdraw from st. Louis to
some other city. We indOrse your views as
stated in your valuable paper.-J. NJ. REID,
Adjutant, Appomattox Post Grenola, Kan.
FROM A MISSOURI VETERAN.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Your reasons
for Mr.. Cleveland not being invited to the Ma
tional Encampment at st. Louis are, think,
well taken. 10 is now fact that needs of no
argument that Mr.. Cleveland has placed him.
self sGuarely on record as an enemy of the SOL
der. / don't think it is the business of St.
Louis to invite Mr.. Cleveland to be present at
the National EnCampment Let the soldiers
do that themselves if they wish him there, but
/ know OF q certainty that none of the soldiers
in this vicinity want him there. AS for N.Y.
SELF if | knew OF certainty that Cleveland
would be invited and was to be there | would
not go. l have no desire to see the man who
has made such q wholesale denuneiation of SOL
diers as the President has, calling them Liars
and perjurers" The soldiers have received
enough insults, taunts and low, dirty liugs, and
it is time now for them TO begin to resent them.
If Dir. Cleveland's friends and admirers want
him to attend q soldiers Reunion, and make
much over him, let them go down South and
get up big Confederate Reunion and invite
JEFF Davis and the rest of his friends, and let
him enjoy their company. There is broad
and impossible gulf between Grover Cleveland
and tle mass of Federal soldiers that time can
never bridge over. The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
is the fayOrite and the standard-bearer of the
soldiers throughout the country. Go on; give
soldier haters the hot shot.-JOHN CARTER,
Sergeant-MajOr, 23d Mo-, Browning, Mo.
AN INSULT TO THE SOLDIERS.
EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: In your edi-
torial columns of May 49, 1887, you mention
that Grover Cleveland is or will be an unbidden
guest at the National Eneampment, etc. There
is claim set up that the City GAR Commit
tee prior TO Cleveland's veto of the Dependent
Bill invited him (GrOver the First to be pres
ent, and that they never have, for some unac-
cOuntable reason, Withdrawn that invitation is
manifest from the wording of the invitation
leaf of the city's great Confederate book. The
citizens of St. Louis could not insult the old
soldiers of the Union in a greater degree by in
viting jeff Davis to be PRESENT.. d. IMMELL,
Blandowsky Post, No. 296, Department of Mis-
souri, Washington, Mo.